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Construction workers work on The Financial Tower, a 68-story skyscraper, located in District 1 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The building, owned by the Vietnamese company Bitexco Group, is designed in the shape of a lotus flower - a Vietnamese cultural symbol. As of 2007, the building was ranked 17th in the world among the tallest.